SB5140, also known as the “Protecting Pregnant Patients Act,” prohibits health care entities from restricting a health care provider’s provision of services related to complications of pregnancy, including, but not limited to, “miscarriage management” and treatment of ectopic pregnancies. It also allows for a private cause of action against health care entities in violation of such requirements.
The Senate passed SB5140 on April 20, 2021, by a vote of 29 to 20. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill is a Trojan horse for forcing health care providers to perform elective abortions. States should act to ban abortion and guarantee the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.